Myspace? Forged Plays?

It is not new for a lot of us, that the credibility of a giant can be shaked by the lack of honor and ethics of the people. For quite a while, inumerous services have been arising to provide artists at myspace the possibility to increase dramatically their plays, number of page visits and friends, only for some dollars.

But as it was obvious, this kind of services were, and are, violating the term of service of Myspace, so those who used this abuse policy of promotion, and still are using, for sure will not be as happy, as they were when they thought they were climbing in the charts.

As you can read in this quote of an answer done by Myspace crew member in a topic around this subject in the www.donewating.com blog.

And i shall quote:

1. By Myspace Security on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply

   Hello, this is myspace security analyst Mark Kasinowski. We are aware that bands are beginning to use fake play generator bots and scripts which strictly violates our users Terms of Servers.

   We have now started sending Music Abuse letters to bands who we are investigating. We delete approximately 14,000 band accounts per day using our automated tools we’ve developed to detect artificial increases in plays views and friends. We are currently compiling a list of sites who provide these types of services.

   We strong urge Bands to carefully consider whether losing all their Myspace friends and account information is worth the $50.00 software that allows you to cheat your plays.

   In addition, we have now implemented a policy where once your band url is detected as cheating and deleted, we block that band url from ever being used again.

   We are working activity to discourage bands from using fake bots and scripts to falsely inflate profile activity. IF you have purchased a software package that claims to increase plays or views, your account will be detected and your band url banned from future use.

   Mark
   Myspace Security Policy Enforcement
   Myspace.com

So for the records, Metricks numbers at Myspace:

"Metricks"

Lisboa, Lisboa
Portugal

Visitas ao Perfil (Profile Views): 16734

Total Plays: 12742


There are no hundred thousand plays, but for sure no risk of being deleted...

As the music was played by the listeners...